'Homeland' Star Breaks Silence on Quinn's 'Unrecognizable' Return

You thought Peter Quinn was a goner. At one point while shooting Homeland last season, actor Rupert Friend thought he was too. “Showrunner Alex Gansa actually called me and said, ‘Listen, thanks for all your hard work and that’s the end of Quinn,” he says. Gansa doesn’t recall being quite so definitive, but at one point he was leaning toward saying goodbye to the steely fan-favorite CIA operative in that sarin gas chamber.